Become A Morning Person

You Are 4 Steps Away From Waking Up Every Morning Feeling Awesome

For those who aren't morning people, a morning person can be annoying — OK, that's putting it lightly. Yet it's possible that these people know something about the morning that others don't.

Sometimes, changes in our lives require that we readjust our schedule, and that can sometimes mean becoming one of those people. Thus, the following four steps to become a morning person are geared toward guys whose job or lifestyle has changed and requires this transition. These steps are also for guys who want more free time and believe they can find it in the morning. Finally, they are for guys who simply want to be more productive and who want to (at least) try and enjoy the fresh morning air.

step 1

Prepare yourself the night before

The first couple of weeks or so during your transition into a morning person will not be easy, so to try and facilitate that transition, make things easier on yourself by getting some of the more mundane — but necessary — tasks out of the way the night before.

Make the mornings during those first couple of weeks or so a little less stressful by executing the following things the night before — perhaps late at night when you're wishing you were asleep but haven't yet been successful about making the adjustments. Choose the clothes you intend to wear to work the following day and have them grouped together in your closet; prepare a lunch that you'll take with you for the next day and keep it refrigerated (if necessary) and; finally, put together a to-do list — a list that, at the outset at least, doesn't demand so much that it frustrates you, and one that still allows you to be functional and productive before you have to leave for work. The list can become more ambitious down the road as you become more accustomed to the schedule.

step 2

Give yourself something to look forward to

No matter how interested — in theory — you may be in becoming a morning person, you will still benefit from having something to look forward to when you get up in the morning, especially during the transition weeks when you're tired. So, for the second step in becoming a morning person, don't hold back here; give yourself a reason to get up so early in the morning, one that has sufficient motivation for you to blow off any thought of hitting the snooze button and actually has you getting up and starting your day when the alarm goes off.

What that reward is naturally depends on you and your personality. It could be nothing more than a good cup of gourmet coffee that you bought specifically for this reason. It could be a new album by a favorite band that you've been holding off listening to, again for this very reason. It could be relaxation time with the morning newspaper — or more relevant, any number of websites you wished you had more time to peruse. It could even be something more strenuous, for example, a half-hour with a personal trainer at the gym, something you may not have had so much time for in the past.

Learn to become a morning person with these two more steps after the jump...